{"id":37666,"date":"2025-11-30T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=37666"},"modified":"2025-11-30T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:00:32","slug":"it-brought-me-here-third-annual-eucharistic-procession-held-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ru\/learn\/it-brought-me-here-third-annual-eucharistic-procession-held-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It brought me here\u2019: Third annual Eucharistic procession held in Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Blessed Sacrament is held aloft during a Eucharistic procession through Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 17, 2025 \/ Credit: Tessa Gervasini<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 17, 2025 \/ 17:30 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

The Catholic Information Center (CIC) on Saturday held its third annual Eucharistic procession through Washington, D.C. in which more than 1,000 participants processed through the downtown area with the Blessed Sacrament. <\/p>\n

Father Charles Trullols, the director of the CIC, told CNA the day was \u201cperfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The faithful kneel during a Eucharistic procession through Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 17, 2025. Credit: Tessa Gervasini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The event kicked off with a Mass at CIC\u2019s chapel. The group of attendees was so large that it could not fit inside the chapel itself, sending people to watch the Mass on a screen outside where they were eventually brought Holy Communion. <\/p>\n

The procession began after Mass and was led by the crossbearer, candle-bearers, religious sisters, and young children who recently received their first Holy Communion and who laid rose petals ahead of the Eucharist.<\/p>\n

Trullols carried the Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance and held it high for the crowd to witness and follow. A choir, priests, and lay people followed behind through the downtown area.<\/p>\n

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Women religious process during a Eucharistic procession through Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 17, 2025. Credit: Tessa Gervasini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the group walked, attendees said prayers and sang hymns. Some bystanders joined in and others kneeled as the procession passed by.<\/p>\n

Gerard McNair-Lewis, a development associate at CIC, noted that the event is held during May, \u201cthe month of Mary.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat better way to celebrate Mary than to honor her son\u2019s Eucharistic presence?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The group processed down K Street. The Eucharist in the procession was \u201cthe closest tabernacle to the White House,\u201d McNair-Lewis said. It\u2019s \u201ca great testament that religious things happen in our nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The faithful celebrate Mass prior to the Eucharistic procession through Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 17, 2025. Credit: Tessa Gervasini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Throughout the procession the group stopped at different locations to kneel before the Blessed Sacrament and hear the gospel. At one stop, Monsignor Charles Pope spoke outside the veteran\u2019s affairs office.<\/p>\n

Pope praised veterans and the military, pointing out that \u201cmany put their lives on the line so that others can live in greater security and freedom.\u201d He said these individuals \u201cimitate Jesus who lays down His life so we can live eternally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krista Anderson, an attendee from Virgina, told CNA that her husband Micheal Simpson was a staff sergeant for the United States Army who was killed in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n

She felt the moment to honor veterans was a message from God.<\/p>\n

Craig Carter flew into Washington for a work trip and \u201chappened to see [the procession].\u201d <\/p>\n

A Protestant, Carter said God \u201cwanted me to come to D.C. early just to pray.\u201d He joined the procession, he said, because God \u201chas been working on [his] heart.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAdoration has always been super special to me in my Catholic faith,\u201d Lydia Vaccaro, a young attendee from Virgina, told CNA. \u201cSo it brought me here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Blessed Sacrament is held aloft during a Eucharistic procession through Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 17, 2025. Credit: Tessa Gervasini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful witness,\u201d said attendee Hannah Hermann. <\/p>\n

\u201cI like being in front of processions like this, where you\u2019re out and people see,\u201d Hermann said.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve heard conversion stories from people who witness a procession.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe procession was beautiful,\u201d Trullols told CNA after the event concluded. \u201cEvery year it is getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n

 \u201cWe know how to do it better and it\u2019s growing \u2013 the quantity of people, the attention, and also the way we organize the liturgy and the music,\u201d Trullols said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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